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As a handful of school districts around the country continue to try to prevent students from forming gay-straight alliances, the U.S. Department of Education is putting schools on notice that federal law requires them to treat all student organizations the same.

In a bid to raise college awareness and readiness among high school students, the state of Delaware will offer every 11th grader the chance to take the SAT college-entrance exam, free of charge, during the school day.

American classrooms are falling short in the area of global competence but teaching our students world languages could reverse this trend, write Anthony M. Jackson, Charles E.M. Kolb, and John I. Wilson.